Dressing and dyeing moleskins



YUNIT'ED: STATES PATENTYOFFI'CEA @IHERMAAN GABBE; or BROOKLYN, YORK.

DRESSING AND DYEING LIOLESKINS.

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T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN GABBE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dressing and Dyeing Moleskins, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide certain new and useful improvements in the preparation of moleskins for use in fur coats, mufi's, scarfs, caps and other fur wearing apparel and whereby the natural color of the moleskin (gray with a bluish tint) is maintained and rendered permanent, and the moleskin is made exceedingly strong and pliable to permit of producing wearing apparel which is durable and highly ornamental and of excellent quality. Another object is to reduce the time required for dressing, dyeing and finishing the moleskin to a minimum thus permitting of manufactu ring the skins at a very low cost.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists essentially in subjecting the raw moleskin successively to the action of a tanning solution and a dyeing solution, sundry of the ingredients being capable of use in either one of the solutions.

In order to produce the desired result, I

proceed in detail as follows: The raw moleskin is soaked in water for about ten hours to soften it and to remove dirt and other extraneous matter. The fur skin is next operated on by a flesher to remove the flesh from the flesh. side of the skin and then the skin is placed into a vat containing a tan ning solution consisting of alum, salt and soda in aboutequal proportions. The skin remains in this tanning solution for about two days audisthen taken out and its flesh side isoiled and rendered leathery in the usual manner. The skin is next operated on by a flesher to thindown the edges and to remove any flesh that may have been overlooked in the first fleshing operation. The skin is next cleaned of any adhering extraneous matter and is then placed in a vat Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed'April 30, 1919. Serial No. 293,696.

Patented July 12, 1921.

containing a dyeing solution consisting, preferably, of

' Parts. Logwood dye Sal ammoniac 25 Sumac; 25 Bluestone (sulfate of copper) 25 Antimony oxid, known in the trade as needle antimony Copperas (green vitriol) The antimony oxid may be omitted as it is used only to give a darker shade to the fur,

if such shade is desired. The sumac and the approximately four times that of the copingredients as above givenhave to be changedv correspondingly to produce the deslred result.

It is understood that moleskins .The vegetable dye and the mineral mordants combine to dye the fur to the original color and luster (gray with a bluish tint) of the raw fur and at the same time this color is absolutelyfast. The sumac renders the fur exceedingly soft thus causing the hairs to lie down smooth on the skin. The dyeing operation lasts about tento fifteen hours. Afterthe dyeingis completed the skins a are removed from the dye vat and placed in a tumbling barrel containing sawdust, and after this process is completed the skin is ready to be worked into a coat or other fur article.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1; The herein described composition of matter to he used-as a dyeing solution for moleskins, consisting of the following ingredients in about the proportions stated,

namely: logwoocl (lye, 50 parts; sal' am moniae, 25 parts; sumac, 25 parts; bluestone,

' 25 parts tancl copperas, 50 parts.

7 oxicl; 25 parts.

2. The herein described composition of matter to be used as a dyeing solution for H MAN GABBE. 

